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qt3t , :ed ley coorse.pf the evening,, Ordered, on the Motion of igr. WiIITBREAD, that there be .laid hetorc the I-Totv4e an Aceount of the Number end 'tonnage of Transports taken or lost o th:ir rotnrn from Cop , ,!nnrigeti ; of the Num ber at Metz nolo ; and Copies or San Orders and Insrnetions given to the Transiyurth on their re ttnn.—Mia, on the Motion of Lord CASTLURFAGIi, a Cony of the Letter of Lord (43tobier to General datedoCtober 14, t 07, and of the Answer therqn. Ordered, on the Motion of Mr. WTIO.IIIIAM, seve ral lecoluns, strewing the Number of Men recruited sinrc'he Ist of Jan. t 807, by the ordinary mode of recruiting ; the Nomber of Desertion_; in the same period t the NUmber who volunteered from the Mi litia under the A& of last Session, into the Regu. Artillery, and Marines ; and the effe&ive strength of the Militia Force on the Ist or Feb. .180 A. • Mr. Rosa RI" WA up brosght up _the Report of the Commit tee of SUpply, when the sivetal Resolutions were ngreed to,' and referred to the Committee of Ways and Means on Wednesday.. Mr. Hus4“ssoN gave notice, .that . he would, on WoLhiehdpy, move to refer the Orders of Council to tike Committee of Ways and Means; - but, on the suggestion of Lord H. Petty, the notice was fixed fin Friday, Lord Folkstone, whose Motion respecting . the Oude Papers stood for that day, consenting to. postpone it toTuesday, this day se'nnight. The Thanks of the 'House were voted, on the MO tion or the Cu xnrcgt,t.on of the EXCHEVER, to the Chaplain, for his Sermon preached at St. Margaret's, Westininstet, on Saturdav last. The SrEiKER informed the Hence that he. ihould, ni there were two bailotß for to-ntorrow; proceed to coma the House at a, quarter before foot o'clock.— Adjourned. STATE PAPERS, LELATIVE TO RUStiIA, ?RESRNTED rn 30211 UOUSES uP PARLIAMENT LAST NIGHT. Ne e I.—Dispatch from the Right Hon. Lord Granville .Leveaon Gower, to Mr. Secretary Canning, dated St. f'etstsburgh, Sept. z, t8a7. 7 Received Sept. 19. St. Petersburgh, Se i m 2, 1807. Sett--I have the honour to inform you, that on Saturday evening, 29th August, I received by Sir Stephen Shairp, who left the fleet off Copenhagen, upon tho 24th of August, your Dispatches Nos. 32 and 33, end on Sunday the Mespnger Ruff deliver ed to me thoie from No. 2ti to 31 inclusive. Being thus completely put in Possession of the sentiments of his Majesty's Govert tient, upon all the points which could come into discussion between' this Country and Great Britain, I lost no time in tequeming a conference with General Uudberg, who, though extremely unwell, invited me to call upon him last night. I began the conference by obserVing, that his Excellency being already apprised, .by the Answer given by his Majesty's Secretary of State to M.. Alopeus, of the conditional acceptance by the Court of Loudon of the proffered mediation of Russia, had to state to him, that I was instructed in the first instance to request the eorrituunieatien of the secret Articles of thertreaty of Tilsit, and a frank disclo sore of the general views and intentions of the Court of St. Peter,,hurgh. That impartiality was the first requisite in the charafiter of a mediator, and That be fore the British Govelnrnent agreed to avail itself of the mediation of this Court; it was essentially ne eessary that England should be placed, with regard to the mediating Power, on an ,equal footing .with Frame; that the confidential intercourse which had taken place between the Emperor and Buanaliarte, at' Tilsit, and by which his Imperial Majesty be. came acquainted with the principles upon which the French Government, proposed negotiating with the Court of London, bad naturally excited an uneasi ness England, which could only, be removed by an unreserved communication ; that I could, not conceal from him, that the period peremptorily prescribed to his Majesty, for the acceptance of the Russian mediation, had created in London a very unfavourable impression against the intervention of Imperial Majesty ; that however, notwithstand itiff hi s Majesty had :jest reason to be offended with de.terta of the trlth Article, such was his desire to embrace any Opening which afforded the prospect of the conclusion of an honourable peace, that he would not rein-tie the conditional acceptance of the Inediation, which had already been conveyed to the 'Russian Government in the Note addressed by you to M. Alopens ; that his Majesty at the same time, looked for some mark of the good-will of the Em peror of Russia , towards Great Britain ; that M. lopeus had, before the late'unfortunate events of Friedland and Tilsit, requested of you a projet of a new laeloy of . Commerce, and had given the as-, anrance of .the disposition of his Court to proceed to the definitive conclusion of a commercial. arrange.. men: 'Reeve!' the t wo-Countries; that a projet had in .compliance with his wish been communicated and transmitted to St. l'elersbnrgh ; and that if the good will of his Imperial Majesty towards England coati; nued unaltered, I trusted no delay would take place in proceeding to the Neentiation of this Treaty ; that the existence of any stipulation in this projet, which was not approved of by this Government, wigs `no obstacle to our entering into negotiation upon it, because I should take upon myself to agree to any moditications which did not appear to change the bads and principles upon which it had been framed; that as Frince heti by the 27th Article of 'the Tilsit Treaty secured the re-establishineut of her former commercial relations with Russia, a natural and ob vious mode of proving the impartiality of the Empe ror would be the renewal of the Commercial Treaty with Great Britain. General Botiberg begin his reply by acknow ledging the existence of secret articles belonging to the Treaty of 'M t. There were some, he raid, which in no way concerned the intereintof England; that he could assure toe, not as an honest man Ire would not say it if it 'sere not troth, there exist , al no secret article whatever which stipolated the shut - tin; the Russian ports against the British. commerce I with respect to the projet if the Treaty Jeetuineree, he had to contest; that, from the press of other brd. nesS, and the bad state of his health, he had not had -Hti!ne to lay it befgre the Emperor; and it tilllSt ceisarily be considered by the Minister of Commet cc before he could confer with me upon it ; null its - 40 th 14.3 27th Article - of the Tilsit Treaty, it only placed LiZiIitTOUN_OT LUC IWO 4,7(lUlltitU6 the same fooeing as they'had been before the corn inencement of the war ; the Commercial Treaty whit France was not renewed, and would ei.:piro in two' 77- -years ; and it by no means followed, because Buonaparte had communicated to the Eipperor, of Russia the basis upon which he was ready to con. clude Peace with England, thai„,his Imperial-Majesty had made any communications at Tilsit,of : the future views and system of the Court of St. Petersburgh. The General appeared to swish that I should con fiider- this answer as sufficiently satisfatiory to autho 'rise rue to accept the mediation of his Court. fob served, in reply, it was difficult to conceive any articles of a Peace between Russia and France which did not directly or indirealy concern Great Britain ; but I aired the communication of the secrct.artieles, not only as an object which Might affect the inter. eats of England, but as a mark of the continuance of that friendship, and confidence on the part of this Conn which could alone afford any prospect of good from the : acceptance of the meditation of the ,Empercir ot Russia with-the same view I had proposed con tinuing the Negotiations, begun by M., Alopeus, and if his E,xcelteocy bad no authority at present to say anything more satisfatiory, than what I had heard from him, I must request him to ask the permission of the Emperor to communicate to me without re-. serve the Secret Articles of the Treaty between . Russia and France, and to empower hint to continue the Negotiations, and conclude a Treaty . of, Com— utcrce o ith Great Britain, Gen, ral Bttrberg proniiied me he would lose no„ titue in bringing these two requisites tindr the con-t , sideration ot his infix:llA nijesty,—l have the ho nour to be, win. the greatcstresped, Bir; yopr most obedient bumble Servant. GRANVILLII LEVESOsI GOLVM No. 11, --Extladi of a Dispatch from the Right lion. I.oid Granville Leveson Gower, to Mr. Secretary,. dated St. Petersburgh, Sept. 2, i807.--iteceiv 19. I had the satistaEtion of finding ilast night, that a considerable change had taken place'in the tone and temper of General Budberg'S conversation. Instead of that coldness and reserve, which characterised the replies of the Russian Minister to the questions , which I had thought it my duty to put to lticii in previous conferences, I found a very mild and con ciliating manner, arid an apparent anxiety to remove every difficulty in the way of a perfealy good derstanding between the two countries. I regretted the reserve which had marked the conduct 'of tbe Russian' Government towards England...-. He an swered that Russia had just grounds ot complaint against England ; he went into a long detail of the little attention that had been given to the repeated representationS of. the Emperor of Misses, and I could not be • surprised, lie, t said, that in the first moment ot mistortUrie,' arising from the want of co operation, he should testify some degree of discon. tent, I replied, that we could not better serve the cause-of Buonaparte, than by indulging in mutual recrimination on the past conduct of each Govern ment; that I wished our whole attention should b© turned to the future, and that I was persuaded, if the Emperor of Russia stilt entertained his former opinions of the danger to be apprehended from the preponderance of - Fraece, the cau,e of the independ ence of -Europe was by no means desperate. No. lll.—Extraa of a Dispatch from the Hight Ho% Lent Granville leveson Gower. to Mr, Secretary Canning, dated St, Petersburgh, Sept. 2, :1107. —Received Se-pt. i 9, As Geneial Iludbtig carefully avoided every Mu sion to !he transactions at Copenhagen dining the interview which took place between us on Tues day, I was somewhat , surprised on the folloiing morning to receive the Note, of which . I have the honour to inclose a copy. In nay answer, also in closed, I have endeavoured to follow closely those' among the reasons stated in your dispatches, which I conceive likely to prove the least offensive to„ this Goveaninent„ reserving other 'argUments for my'first future conterence with the Minister, (First Inclosure =fermi to in No. 3.) ' His Majesty the Emperor has just learned, with the utmost surprise, by accounts from Ins Minister at Copenhagen, as well as by a dispatch from his Danish Majesty's Minister at this Court, that. Mr. Jackson, his Britannic Majesty's Plenipotenti ar y, has made propositions as derogatory to, as income . patible with,.. the dignity of every, independent Power, and. that, upon the refusal. of the Prince Royal of Denmark to accede .to a pretension so ex.; traordinnry, the English Fleet has token a pesitinn which evidently announces intentions hostile to, .wards Denmark. The ties of consanguinity and friendship which mite his Imperial. Majesty with the King of Denmark, not - suffering him to view with indifference any danger which might menace h.ts dominions or the independence of that Sove reign, the Undersigned l received commands to invite his Excellency Lord Glanville Leveson Gower to acquaint' him with the motives which have in ' duced . .the Cabinet of St. James ' s to adopt proceed ings so extraordinary against Denmark. The Un dersigned, "Sic. . A. DP. BUDRERO., St. Petersbutel. loth August-Ist Sept. 1807. (Second Inelosure referred to in No. 3.) St. retersburgh. Aug. air-Sept. 2, deg. Agreeably to the desire of his Excellency General Bildberg, the Undersigned, Ambassador of his Bri tannic MAjesty, loses no time in communicating to the Russian Government the motives which led to the steps taken by the King's . Minister at the Court of Denmarli, and to the subsequent operations of the British forces against the Island of Zealand. The British 'Ministry had been a lung time in poisession of positive data, which left no doubt as to the inten. firms of the French Government respe6ting the' Marii time means ,of'Derunark; and the . projeds . against England from that quarter, which were matured by the Continental peace, certainly cannot have escaped the'penetration of his Majesty the Emperor •of Rus sia. The Danitill Fleet, destined to cover a descent on the British coasts, being therefore an ()bled esiett • tial for the aecumplishment o 1 the views of Prance, tne King found hitti , elfunder the necessity of secur ing himself from so imminent a danger, by those precautions, which were adopted With regret, how', ever indispetts ibie for the securiik - of his Empire. The ties ct relationship whlth unite the tWo.C uur ts of i.orNin and of Cope. .h kgen would have insplr&'d the King with he desire of avoiding such a irtintni extremity, and of re , peding, as tar as depended upon himself, the interest of Dent:nark but I, :tl' Callea eql1311) 7 lOT iucaaurea atlapletl in WARI MT a -.- - danget which.threater.ed not only the walftlre of his people, but the existence of his crown. Thp UnderSignecl, having. thus frankly tvplied to General Budberg's Note, will with pleasure furnish a. nvOre detailed verbal explanation should his Excel lency desire it ; and he avails himself of the oppor tunity to repeat -the assurances of 111 s-high considera tion, - (Signed) G. L. GOWER. U Excellency General De Btu'berg, &c. No. I V.--Extrait of a Dispatch from Mr. Secretary Can. ning to the Right Hon. Lout Granville Leveson Gower, dated Sept. 27, 0107. Foreign Oflice, Sept. 27, 1807. Sir Robert Wilson arrived . here on Saturday the loth with your Excellency's Dispatches of the ed inatant, which r have laid before the King. What ever may have been the motives or the causes of the change which your Eicellency represents to have taken place in the tone,of- the Russian Councils, or whatever may be the probability of the continuance of the system now apparently adopted, his Majesty hailS with the most sincere satisfaelion the return ot those sentiments of friendship and confidence on the part of 114 august Ally, frorn which his Majesty on his part has never deviated, and' the cultivation of which is more than ever necessary for theiricom mon interests. Your Excellency will lose nooppor tun;ay of expressing these sentiments to- his !lope.- rial Majesty and his Minister. *The tarbizarance and ineileration which your Ex cellency has.been all along instructed to employ .in all your remonstrances with respett to transactions in which the personal chartiaer ot his Imperial Ma jesty was so immediately.concerned, and the reliance whichyou•haVe.not failed toexpress on the return ing sense at what was due to his Majesty's long experienced friendship ind fidelity, accord - pertealy with the language which you are now iustrotted to use, and mike the whole of his Majesty's conduct towards his' Imperial 5.1 1 11 k-sty 'uniforrit and consist ent.. Find, your Excellency caotiot too constantly impress, upon the Russian Minister' the topic which you have 30 judiciously employed In, your late con ferences, that in the present state of the world, yes trospe& and recritnioak ion are worse than useless; and that the establishment of future good understand ing, and the concert of measures to be taken with a view to future exertion, are alone the proper sub , jeas of discussion between the two Governments. Your Excellency did pertedly right in declining to consider the communication of Gen. Budberg as sufficiently satistattory, to authorise your acceptance, on the part of his Majesty, of the mediation of the Emperor of Russia, The points upon which the question of this acceptance turns, are—lst, The frank communication of the Articles of the Treaty of Tilsit, secret as well as avowed.--2ttly, A distinct explanation of thebasis upon which France prOposes to treat, and which appeared to his Imperial Majesty at Tilsit so . just and bonottrable. These are the conditions direaly stipulated in my Note to M. Alo pens, and without which an acceptance of any me diatein by hit Majesty could be nothing else than a complete surrender of his honour and his. interest into the hands of the mediator, if not of_ the enemy. lint to these arc resonably to be added, if not. as conditions without which it would be impossible to consent to treat Under the auspices of Russia, at least as those whitili his Malesty has aright to require from a friendly Power, before he• commits himself to its guidance in a ques tion affeaing . the josniediato safety and the future welfare ()flits dominions :--Ist, A disclosere of the general views of the policy of the Emperor Of Rus sia, and of any engagements into which he may have entered with reaped to the different Powers in whose fortunes his Majesty. takes an interest ; and 2dly, Some plain and decisive proof 'of the good under .staudtng Siabsisting between his Majestyand his au gust Ally ; such as shall satisfy, not his Majesty only, but Europe and the world, of impartiality with which his Imperial Majesty has, tindertiken, ancl.proposes to administer, the duties' of his office as Mediator. With respect to the first of the two points which I have stated as absolutely indispensable, General Budberg appears as y t to have gone no, farther than to give a verbal assurance. that there is not any article, among the Secret Articles of the Treaty of Tilsit, stipulating for the shutting of the Russian 'ports against Great Britain. But it will • immediately have occurred to your Excellency, that. a distinction might probably be taken in M. De Budberg's mind, between a stipu lation for the immediate and unconditional execution of a purpose , and the , agreement to resort to it eventually, under circumstances which may not yet have occurred; and that, supposing the former only to be the sense of M. De Budberg's assurance, that assurance might' be literally true, without in fad conveying any thing essentially satisfactory. The inference to be drawn from this circumstance is, that the Russian Minister should be called upon by your Excellency in an official Note,. not for a simple disavowal only of any single article, but for the communication of the Secret Articles them selves, or at least of any agreement, actual or eventual, in-which the interests of this Country or its allies are in any degree concerned. In the same formal manner a communication should be required of the basis of peace 'proposed by France ;upon which. the Russian Minister dues not appear to havo offered any explanation. The other two points are not so strictly connected with the question of Mediation. But it is ueverthes less perfectly reasonable that his Majesty should re quire some ostensible proof of, the goiid-will of .his august Ally, to counteract the general impression which must have'been created by late events, of a difference and distution between them, before his Majesty can with a good grace accept those offices at t al t l i t l y e s E h m ou p l e d ro b r e t c‘' l li to e u s ssi s a e ' n s t h ial an e d h s acater. No which in p% could be selected, , at orice so easy for his Imperial Majesty - to give;' so .grateful to his Majesty to re. cliette liable ivleiso t a natural ee l p n t e o eyes l te n o F e f :a r t r c h t ° 7l ‘ .F7ra r renewal of the Treaty of Commerce.. t With reseed to the reMainiug poipt„. seviiefig..y is instruCted to urge, a comintioii:ation On the put of the Russian Government of irs4;ene . ral views and policy for the ftiture, you • that his Imperial Majesty himself ttimexed Iv 'big conditional acceptance of the mediation of the Em peror of Allan& a similar demand of the curninutii- i reseeaing the — future state of Europe. In the Treaty of Bartenstern, coitchtded bet weed his imperial Majesty and the King of pct sia i and . offered by them to the acceptance of other Pnwerl as the basis of a co-operation for the purpose of pro: ducing a general. pacific arrangement, a distina at% detailed 'expositiou was entered into with respe& not only to the Powers intended to becomprehended 1111 parties to the Treaty, but to all the Powets of Eta" rope in - whosefate any one of the prineinal - :Po could be supposed to' be interested. Tilese'exam ples of what, his .Imperial .Majesty has and what he has required, woull sufficiently authorize• his Majesty's solicitude to obtain a similar explana tion on the present occasion.' But there are other grounds for it in the very state and circumstances of Europe, ,as araiing- out of the Treaty of Tilsit, and the stipulations anpexed to it some of which stipulations are already carrying into execution in a way to excite his• Majesty's apprehen sions, if not; for his own interests, aor those of hil allies. Is it Possible that'll's _Majesty should not think it essential to be informed, whether the Iwo lie Article of the. Treaty of Tilsit., which recognizes the. French .King.of" Naples-only its Kingof Naalc 4, is, in elf et contradided by a secret article, which: adds to. this title. that of the Two Sicilies ? The movements in the Mediterranean, and the surren' • der of Corfu, naturally give rise to a variety of ap" . prebensions,. which .it would be for the interest of . both countries.to quiet, or at least to reduce withi a, the bounds of truth. Ha., not his Majesty the right to require some explanation of the intentions of pia with respeEt to Turkey ; a Power with whom his Majesty finds himself at war,"and left alone in t the War, for no other than Russian interests, 04 from a quarrel espoused by Majesty for the sake Of his ally ? ' These topics your Excellency will urge in your conferences with M. D. Builberg with all the earnes t.. i ness which their importance requires, but at the same time carefully avoiding a stain of reproach . and even when yap are obliged to confess the sal" picion Of engagements having been entered into such as his Majesty cannot hut disapprove, contlna.ting your inquiry in such a manner as shall lead M. pc bud berg to believe, that his Majesty is an xioos ' to find the means of preventing or remedying !! )(e ~ evil, than to discover the grounds of cottiPlain• • against Russia. Upon the whole, your Excellency will from these instru&ions, that his Ma eat is as iatuctt desirous, as ever, to culti v ate the friendship and al' hence of the Emperor of Russia ; thit he coeceicci the only-chance of safety for what remains of P- 14 rope to depend upon the renewal of a good undar• standing bettieen them ; that his Majesty has neVsr, , even under appearances the .most uti faveurable, together despaired of such a, recurrtnce, ort the P 3r .! of the Emperoroo the counsels whiCh are bes t cal culated for his own glory, and for the r.ecurity °flits own donainions, hS it is UMW hoped has tikten plate i= and that his Majesty, upon such a Change, is "O.; to forgot a; that has pas•iea of a stature eotttradi dur / to those counsel,, 'or inconsistent with them. 4 NO. V.—Extrod of a Dispatch from Mr. Secretary C:truritl to the Itigot Ma. Lord Granville LCVeSG/11 “ o wer, Sept. sg, 1807. Foreign °ee. Sept. 29, to 7. M His Majesty entirely approves of the answer re" turned by your Excellency to General Buaberis Note on the suhjea of the operations at Copeuhagc a. I inclose to your Excellency a Copy of the Det.la: ration which his Majesty has caused to be•poblishe a on that subject, - in which Your Excellency will t'tti the. principles upon which his Majesty has sieli clearly laid down; and in which the clispositioir u his Majesty to limit the measures, of hostility to which he has unfortunately found himself compelled to have recourse, is anncunced 'with that frankuesE and moderation which charatiterise his Maje.styS conduet. In conversing upon this subje& w i t h t h e Russian. Minister, your Excellency, in addition to the argu'' meats so correctly stated in your Note, and to their with which his Majesty's Declaration will you, will not hesitate to appeal 'to the Rociian Cso vennnent itself for masons in justification of the measures to which his Majesty has been under 6 4 nec ys es o s n ity w o il f l resorting. General Budberg, not as a nat ter of reproach, but as , rnatter of fa'• ereiY, ; 1114 , C ., from the conclusion of 'the Peace 0 ."0 ',t Juan t o the hour at which your Excellene) 'S dis Patches L Sir Robert Wilson we r e rece i ve d here, the Britis bb Government were without one word of as surances: to the amicable i n t ent i ons o f R uss i a towards Url- Britain. The offer of mediation, under all the c ar " cumstances which belonged to it, waa'calcul a.wi excite any other fe e li ng rather than that acorn:dello in the Emperor's good will ; and`every account ifot was received here of the temper in which that ar°' .lP°sveWaiedw w as sy made etre dea m n4 y, o j t u . s t t h ifi e ed lig ti h re t belief that it wits i t n o te le n a d d ed by Russia rather as preparatory to ho" itit a i ' consequent upon his Majesty's refusal; .than si , a pacific result through his accepta nce. : the mean time, the publication of Liw..l'ru,s).,e Peace, and th e co n cea l ment of the Russi:in and intelligence of the plan brought forward in Ole coq _; t fe h r ii en c( ce ) s un o t f ry T , il i s n it w for hic a l tgleiene;lialv confederacy again,. 'Portugal were destined to co-e i p e e s r O at t e D ( e i t rtel a l r ig k e antil ' 44 since conf i rmed by a frank and friendly comnaluici tion froM Porto al herself of such a proposal. havini ts c 6e a e se n e a f a he u r a d i with threats of instant and destru&ive hostility l e y cl n i t n a i d n e g to to c h o e m r p h iw F i r t a h n i c o e : and enfora.l, stances, coupled witll the "actual pre t p b a e r s e e tio ci n c s u r . : the reception of a large French force at Han3herg l c n on iv l a y n 'o e f e, th i e r n de o 4 t ip oe s t o he f formed together such a body of evidetwe . 11 ` . R p t' ar u t n ic a i P p a fti e L , his Majesty would have been wanting Mike in tv l 'i he owed to his own dignity, and to the security (), , but of: the con' his demi:liana, 'if ho had not taken the most r tr . e ,, c „; tual steps for breaking through the combanztion t. '" -- n was colleting round him ; and it would have wc.. o of Russia, 6 ' l ; idle, under such circumstances. to have waited consent of Russia to measures 'calculate& to /We danger, of which Ru ss ia h erse lf. f or med : , sa larc 3 part. It cannot be di s g u i se d, therefore, ta'r't het want or communication on the part of the 11.!•lis! . e Government has been in no s mall degree " Ow "ut nest t. of very mischief w hich th at Goverrirne menu. I Confident as his Majesty is in the juoificAti°ll